Maroon Bible

                                  its nine eighteen yeah its coffee colored evening

the headlights spin shadows on the ceiling

and i'm left here with the gideon bible

long strands of her hair trickle down the bed



in my soul there's a little alaska

its eighty below and its dropping



sweet ecclesiastes won't you preach to me

corner store assassin with the block nineteen

coffee makes my hand shake i'm a frightened boy

if i was jack the ripper would you still kiss me



she's smooth like the girl with the leather like binding

fall into the snow yeah you make a little angel

and i read straight through the book of revelation

saw the astronauts on tv jumpin' on the moon



and all the horses that i bet on

are lame and shot through the head



sweet ecclesiastes won't you preach to me

corner store assassin with the block nineteen

coffee makes my hand shake i'm a frightened boy

if i were jack the ripper would you still kiss me